Nowadays I avoid short-haul redeyes at almost all costs. Back when I was younger I took hundreds of them, but I just can't take them regularly anymore while remaining (relatively) sane. However, leaving Longyearbyen last night, we didn't have much of a choice but to take a redeye. The SAS flight from Longyearbyen to Oslo…
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Lucky, am I wrong or the plane you posted on your first pic is not the plane you've flown? I've never seen an B737 with seat Config 3-2...
"Red-eye" or not, 3.5 hrs in coach at 2:30 am will result in feeling like crap for 2 or 3 days.
No matter what it's called, the "red-eye" comes naturally from lack of sleep.
Even in the US on a "normal" red-eye, many are about that length going east. Gets hard to recover as one ages:(
No, due to the short duration - but I'd also consider a westbound TCON leaving at 11pm more of a redeye
I can't wait for this review. Can you write more on things to do in Longyearbyen.
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I think the emergency exit row on SAS 737NG is missing a seat in both sides, the rest of the cabin is 3-3
@Nelson, look again. It is 3-3. The photo just perfectly cuts off one seat in a row so it only looks like 2 in that row.
No one lowered windows shades? The one in the seventh (or so) on the right sure looks lowered, and it looks like there may be others.
I had a first the other week. I took air Canada from Vancouver to London, we departed at 9.10PM as the sun was setting, it was daylight the entire way back even though it was a night time flight, we flew so high we just followed the setting sun most of the way, until I got to watch the sun rise again, it was amazing.
The closest experience I've had to that when I flew from Seattle to London on BA back in May. Even though my window shades were lowered, there seemed to be a little bit of light peaking in during the entire flight.
I have taken some long flights South to North in the summer when I have actually left in the dark but arrived to sunshine although it was still the middle of the night in my destination. An Example is Sea-Anchorage. Leave Seattle 9 pm (Dark) arrive Anch midnight. Still light out when you get there.
Have really enjoyed your dispatches from one of my bucketlist locations, keep 'em coming!
I must say I'm a little amused by the idea of this article. Luckily - very luckily - I can sleep with the sun shining right on my eyes, so light is never a problem. On the flip side, I need to be careful not to fall asleep laying on a beach!
Hey @RCB: Isn't daylight time more or less by definition, daytime? 😉
You know you've run out of ideas when crap like this gets posted.
And for your "odd mix" of people - that's standard in economy. There was nothing odd about what they were doing.